SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1918, Page 8

SPORTING.

—. .cfc, MANAWATU CLUB'S PATRIOTISM. By -Telegraph.—(Press Association. Palmerston North,. Last Night. The committee of the Manawatu Racing Club has resolved that all profits from the Autumn Meeting be invested in the War Loan, and the securities are to be handed over for such patriotic purposes as the committee may think lit to decide. It is understood the profits amount to a considerable sum. TURF TOPICS. By "Jloturoa." Hawke's Bay Cup to-day. Hawke's Bay Stakes on Saturday. Hymestra will be "apple pie'' at Hastings. Pursefiller may he the fittest horse in llto open hurdles to-day. Tbe Estland—llyniestra double has beeir*in great demand this week. Lord Ainslie, on Bulls aud Awapuni form, reads dangerous m the Hack Hurdles at Hastings. Old Braeburn is reported to "do very backward, his "dickey" legs preventing s, solid preparation. | It is on the cards that Fred Davis will invade 'Stralia with Desert Gold, Finraark, and Estland next spring.. Killowen has a tidy weight in the Nursery at Hastings, hut the opposition is not too strohg. Estland was flying at the finish of the Manawatu Stakes, and the longer distance in the Hawke's Bay Cup should suit him better. After a light season at the stud, Plying Start hss been put into work again, but report says he is touched in the wind- ; Walter Rayner is having some trouble with Zola and Zela, both of Zaida's pri.jgeny 'being bleeders Tlifj filly is not !so had in this respect as her big brother. After all. jhe Ibex ease'appears to have fallen flat- Dame Rumor was very busy concerning the Wanganui sprinter's failure at A^vapani, By his two wins at Palmerston A. Pringlu has brought lii s tally up to 18, hut .)'. Bryce,' with Hi, is chasing him hard for the.trotting premiership. ■Mr. T. Roe had a fair rjn with Tatlies at the Auckland aud Otahuhu meetings, the mare winning three, races and [laying fair "prices.'' At Awapuni the other day some wag sent the Desert Gold worshippers along" to the box occupied by Rawakore. .and' in a few seconds Dick' Johnson anuTtho black mare were surrounded by an admiring crowd of several hundred. "They all seem to have taken a sudden fancy to | this moke," remarked Dick. Then some "tartlet' gushed, "What a darling she [is! Dear old Desert Gold!" and"Dick was so flabbergasted that the couldn't speak for half a minute; )mt when he recovered his 1 voice what ho said .was "history,"- arid the crowd melted precipi-